A couple of people sent me this one; and it took me a few tries, but I’m pretty sure… They’re out of milk for their cereal, so the cow deliberately made herself laugh so hard, milk came out of her nose. Which for some reason she thinks is more pleasant than making milk come out of her the normal way.

I’m with the chicken: I’ll just stick with toast this morning, thank you.

Okay, is this like how doctors won’t treat patients who are members of their own families (or barbers not cutting their own hair)? Because seriously, if I were a plumber, I wouldn’t be paying somebody else hundreds of dollars to do something in my own home that I could quickly do myself.

Did I miss a panel here? I didn’t see anybody particularly saying Grandpa Jim was going to be okay, yet I really don’t get the sense that Elly was lying.

And geez, the entire strip essentially ends in a couple of days. Would it have cost Lynn Johnston, you know, money or anything to let the guy regain some semblance of health before then? I mean what is this, Funky Winkerbean?

That’s a mezuzah, which Jewish families place next to their doorways (sometimes next to the doorways of each room inside the house or apartment, as well). There’s a scroll inside the mezuzah, on which is written the Shema, an important Jewish prayer.

The comic is portraying it very accurately, right down to the angle at which the mezuzah is supposed to be positioned.

Knowing all this, however, doesn’t explain the actual joke (though the concept itself is pretty funny, if a bit obscure to many of the non-Chosen).

Little-known fact: Being registered as a Republican doesn’t actually give the Republican presidential candidate a vote. See, if this were the case, we wouldn’t have to interrupt our schedules for Election Day, but rather would simply count the memberships of the major political parties.

That’s a shame, because the panel was a lot funnier when I thought there was a connection. Fortunately, since our president taught us that facts are anything we believe to be facts, I choose to believe that the connection exists.